Problem with Decode statement

Hi
I am trying to achieve the following in my report:
If an employee has a surname of . (dot) or a first name of . (dot), the report should not display a dot. An employee's name is made up of surname, first name and middle name which should all be concatenated together. To try to achieve this, I have the following statement in my report:
decode(e.Surname, '.', ( LTRIM(RTRIM((INITCAP(e.FIRST_NAME)))||' '||INITCAP(e.MIDDLE_NAME)) ) ,
e.FIRST_NAME, '.', ( LTRIM(RTRIM((INITCAP(e.Surname)))||' '||INITCAP(e.MIDDLE_NAME)) ) ,
( LTRIM(RTRIM((INITCAP(e.SURNAME )))||', '||INITCAP(e.FIRST_NAME)||' '||INITCAP(e.MIDDLE_NAME)) ) ) as emp_name
FROM Employee e
Problem: The above statement is only working for those employees with surname of . (dot). It's not working for first names of dot. How can I use the decode statement OR is there any other way of doing it without using the CASE statement?
It seems my decode statement doesn't work with 2 different fields (surname, firstname) being tested within one decode statement.Thanks.

Thank you so much InoL . I have used the ltrim with Replace but now have a new problem.
Because I am joining Surname, First name and middle name together and put a comma after the Surname, the name now appears as follows:
, Maria Ane (if Surname is a dot)
Boiler, (if first name is a dot)
I would like to get rid of a comma and only have comma when surname or first name does not have a dot, i.e. for those people with full names e.g. Blake, Anna Marie.
InoL, how can I achieve this? Thanks.

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>
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>
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MODIFY_DATE DATE
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GROUP_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(96)
CREATE_DATE DATE
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I have no clue if Access supports stored procedures, and this surely isn't related to JDBC at all. Did you check your Access documentation?
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Most probably Access does not support stored procedures. To verify that, you should execute your CREATE PROCEDURE statement from within Access, to verify that it is a supported statement.

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        case 'A': case 'a':
        case 'E': case 'e':
        case 'I': case 'i':
        case 'O': case 'o':
        case 'U': case 'u':
          countV++;
          break;
        case 'B': case 'b': case 'C': case 'c': case 'D': case 'd': case 'F': case 'f': case 'G': case 'g': case 'H': case 'h':
        case 'J': case 'j': case 'K': case 'k': case 'L': case 'l': case 'M': case 'm': case 'N': case 'n': case 'P': case 'p':
        case 'Q': case 'q': case 'R': case 'r': case 'S': case 's': case 'T': case 't': case 'V': case 'v': case 'W': case 'w':
        case 'X': case 'x': case 'Y': case 'y': case 'Z': case 'z':
          countC++;
          break;
        case ' ':
          countS++;
          break;
        case ',': case '.': case ':': case '!': case '?':
          countP++;
          break;
        case 'Ä': case 'ä': case 'Ö': case 'ö': case 'Ü': case 'ü':
          countU++;
          break;
    System.out.println( "Total amount of characters:\t" + total );
    System.out.println( "Number of consonants:\t\t" + countC );
    System.out.println( "Number of vocals:\t\t" + countV );
    System.out.println( "Number of umlauts:\t\t" + countU );
    System.out.println( "Number of spaces:\t\t" + countS );
    System.out.println( "Number of punctuation chars:\t" + countP );
}

WRE wrote:
In general Im not very happy with this huge list of cases. How would you solve a problem like this? Is there a more convenient/elegant way?I've been doing this a lot lately myself evaluating documents with 20 or so million words. Few tips:
1. Regular expressions can vastly reduce the list of cases. For example you can capture all letters from a to z or A to Z as follows [a-zA-Z]. To match a single character in a String you can then make use of the Pattern and Matcher classes, and incorporate the regular expression. e.g.
//Un-compiled code, may contain errors.
private Pattern letterPattern = Pattern.compile("[a-zA-Z]");
public int countNumberOfLettersInString(final String string) {
    int count = 0;
    Matcher letterMatcher = letterPattern.matcher(string);
    while(letterMatcher.find()) {
      count++;
    return count;
}2. As mentioned above, Sets are an excellent choice. Simply declare a static variable and instantiate it using a static initializer block. Then loop over the String to determine if the character is in the given set. e.g.
//Un-compiled code, may contain errors.
private static Set<Character> macrons = new HashSet<Character>();
static {
    macrons.add('ä');
    macrons.add('ö');
    macrons.add('ü');
public int countNumberOfMacronsInString(final String string) {
    int count = 0;
    for(char c : string.toCharArray()) {
      if(macrons.contains(c) {
        count++;
    return count;
}Mel

Performance problem with MERGE statement

Version : 11.1.0.7.0
I have an insert statement like following which is taking less than 2 secs to complete and inserts around 4000 rows:
INSERT INTO sch.tab1
          (c1,c2,c3)
SELECT c1,c2,c3
   FROM sch1.tab1@dblink
WHERE c1 IN (SELECT c1 FROM sch1.tab2@dblink);I wanted to change it to a MERGE statement just to avoid duplicate data. I changed it to following :
MERGE INTO sch.tab1 t1
USING (SELECT c1,c2,c3
   FROM sch1.tab1@dblink
WHERE c1 IN (SELECT c1 FROM sch1.tab2@dblink) t2
ON (t1.c1 = t2.c1)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (t1.c1,t1.c2,t1.c3)
VALUES (t2.c1,t2.c2,t2.c3);The MERGE statement is taking more than 2 mins (and I stopped the execution after that). I removed the WHERE clause subquery inside the subquery of the USING section and it executed in 1 sec.
If I execute the same select statement with the WHERE clause outside the MERGE statement, it takes just 1 sec to return the data.
Is there any known issue with MERGE statement while implementing using above scenario?

riedelme wrote:
Are your join columns indexed?
Yes, the join columns are indexed.
You are doing a remote query inside the merge; remote queries can slow things down. Do you have to select all thr rows from the remote table? What if you copied them locally using a materialized view?Yes, I agree that remote queries will slow things down. But the same is not happening while select, insert and pl/sql. It happens only when we are using MERGE. I have to test what happens if we use a subquery refering to a local table or materialized view. Even if it works, I think there is still a problem with MERGE in case of remote subqueries (atleast till I test local queries). I wish some one can test similar scenarios so that we can know whether it is a genuine problem or some specific problem from my side.
>
BTW, I haven't had great luck with MERGE either :(. Last time I tried to use it I found it faster to use a loop with insert/update logic.
Edited by: riedelme on Jul 28, 2009 12:12 PM:) I used the same to overcome this situation. I think MERGE needs to be still improved functionally from Oracle side. I personally feel that it is one of the robust features to grace SQL or PL/SQL.

Oracle 9i, Rel.2 - Problems with dynam statement and cursor

Hello,
I have the following problem with Oracle 9i, Release 2:
I have a SQL-statement, which I create with the help of a configuration table. That means I don’t know how this statement looks at runtime. It could be look like this:
SELECT Att1, Att2, Att3
FROM Tab1
or this…
SELECT Att1, Att2
FROM Tab1
or this…
SELECT Att1
FROM Tab1
etc.
That means I don’t know in advance how many columns will be in the select-clause.
Here my code snippet until here:
v_query_str := 'SELECT ' || v_select_clause_str
|| ' FROM cb.' || v_table;
,,v_select_clause_str" willl be created dynamically
,,v_table" is as well from the config-table
Now I want to iterate through the result of the query and do further processing.
For this reason I wanted to use a cursor, iterate through the rows and save every value of each row in an own variable (but I don’t know the number of columns!!!).
But how can I open a cursor and iterate through it without knowing the number of columns???
The following code is NOT working:
TYPE t_dataColumnComp IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(200);
a_dataColumnComp t_dataColumnComp;
--here I create the query…
v_query_str := 'SELECT ' || v_select_clause_str
|| ' FROM cb.' || v_table;
OPEN c_tempAtt FOR v_query_str;
LOOP
FETCH c_tempAtt INTO a_dataColumnComp; --THIS DON’T WORK
EXIT WHEN c_tempAtt%NOTFOUND;
FOR i IN 1..a_dataColumnComp.COUNT
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(a_dataColumnComp(i));
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
CLOSE c_tempAtt; --close cursor variable
Regards
Homer

You will need to use DBMS_SQL to handle this since the number of columns in the result set is not known until runtime.
See here for an example of using DBMS_SQL:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:235814350980

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